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Land registration is being severely hampered at 495 land registry offices across the country due to an indefinite strike by extra-muharrirs, copiers of land documents.

Two sisters have allegedly been raped after they were made to drink spiked juice and lose consciousness in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.

“Everybody [college teachers] prefers Dhaka. Should students outside Dhaka stop studying?”

An ambulance carrying a body and a microbus with family members of the deceased were attacked by robbers at capital's

A court has jailed two teachers in Bagerhat for making derogatory comments about Islam, invoking a rare law from the British

Southeast Asia has been roasting in an extended heatwave through much of April with temperatures reaching unprecedented

The usual eight-hour working time a day is not applicable for him. He has to work almost double the time.

Head towards Chuadanga for six kilometres from Jhenidah town and you would reach a small bazaar called Nagarbathan. Ask anyone about Jahir Raihan.

Another day, another brutal murder. In the latest attack, unidentified assailants hacked a Hindu man to death in his tailoring shop in Tangail in broad daylight yesterday.

Three people, including a trader and his son, suffered burns yesterday as an Awami League activist of Old Dhaka reportedly threw

The authorities of secondary schools can reschedule classes amid a heat wave sweeping the country for the last three weeks.

Two vessels carrying over 1,00,000 tonnes of wheat, yellow maize and yellow peas from Argentina and Canada arrived at the outer anchorage of the Chittagong Port in the middle of this month.

Telecom operators had to deal with a last-minute rush of mobile phone users yesterday, with the deadline for biometric SIM re-registration expiring today.

She was gang raped by railway employees at the railway rest room in Kolkata while travelling in India on February 26, 1998. The incident triggered outrage. Maitree, a network of 42 women's groups and NGOs in Kolkata, moved to Kolkata High Court seeking compensation for the 27-year old Shefali Begum (name changed to protect her identity).

US Secretary of State John Kerry last night phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and requested her to take necessary steps to bring to book the killers of Xulhaz.

“There is no place for hatred in Islam. Religious leaders have to be careful about instigation while preaching and giving sermons.”

The UN has predicted a steady economic growth for Bangladesh this year and the next year, but voiced concern over rising

He got off the train just to get a paan. All his career he must have done it hundreds of times, but this would be his last.

The Supreme Court will rehear 161 cases in which former SC judge Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik wrote